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Jean Paul Richter

It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.

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Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

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Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.

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Eleanor Hamilton

A compliment is a gift not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver.

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Tis an old maxim in the schools That flattery’s the food of fools – Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

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Sydney J. Harris

The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.

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Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.

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Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

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Walter Savage Landor

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

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George Bernard Shaw

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.

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Charles Caleb Colton

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

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